Saturday, 7 December 2013

"the obscure camera" and "lost and found" - more info

“lost
and found” and “the obscure camera” are the sixth and seventh photography
exhibitions organised in Abertillery, Wales by the*kickplate*project.

“lost
and found” features copies of analogue photographs submitted by the members of
our local community, including Abertillery, Six Bells and Brynmawr. In the
times of omnipresent digital photography we wanted to remind everyone about the
importance of physical prints that don’t get deleted easily and that can last
for generations. We asked people to have another look at their photo albums,
that all of us used to have and fill up with memories of holidays, celebrations
and snapshots of everyday life. We discovered some real treasures, accounts of
both people’s past and the past of photographic and printing techniques that
are no longer used on a mass scale. We’d like to thank everyone who trusted us with
their photographs and thus gave us an insight into their lives and artistic
endeavours.

“the
obscure camera” is an exhibition of abstract photography featuring German
photographer Florian Schmidt. We decided to present these two contrasting types
of photography – the very well-known scenes from family albums and a selection
of abstract work that many of our viewers may not be familiar with. We’d like
to show that abstraction is not necessarily inaccessible to an average viewer
and to show that photography can be used to create an aesthetic or emotion and
not just record the real world as it is.

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